#would’ve could’ve should’ve

[stillgotscars]

thinking about “and i’m pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free” and “give me back my girlhood, it was mine first” is actually making me feel sick to my stomach

#taylor swift #the tortured poets department #so long london #would’ve could’ve should’ve #*

[likeafolkssong]

God rest my soul, I miss who I used to be

#taylor swift #midnights #would’ve could’ve should’ve #tsedit #tswiftedit #my edit

[myawesomemixtape]

WOULD'VE, COULD'VE, SHOULD'VE — Taylor Swift

#would’ve could’ve should’ve #midnights #midnightsedit #taylor swift #tswiftedit #tsedit #lyrics #tswiftdaily #dailylyrics #tsnation #tswiftnation #tusergeo #tsuserjen #usernadiya #userkatya #mine:ts #myedit #lemme know if you want to be tagged<3 #1k #2k

[esotericswiftie]

1. anti-hero, taylor swift / 2, 19. “taylor swift’s ‘sexy baby’ lyric is more than a ‘30 rock’ reference,” sophia june for nylon magazine / 3, 4, 12, 22. taylor swift ages 14-16, photographed by andrew orth / 5, 23. dominique swain age 15, photographed for lolita (1997) / 6, 17. “the fetishization of girlhood,” m.c. easton / 7. lolita (1962), dir. stanley kubrick / 8. 22 (mv), taylor swift / 9. anti-hero (mv), taylor swift / 10, 14, 18. nothing new, taylor swift ft. phoebe bridgers / 11. “2008’s country lolita: taylor swift,” gavin edwards for rolling stone / 13, 21. lolita (1997), dir. adrian lyne / 15. okcupid dating chart: age preferences by gender / 16. all too well (ten minute version), taylor swift / 20. university of pittsburgh 2021-2022 undergraduate catalog / 23. would’ve, could’ve, should’ve, taylor swift

apologies for this ridiculously long megathread, but i found a ton of these photographs of taylor from when before she was famous, around ages 14-16, and ooh boy, did they get me thinking…

sometimes i wonder if she just really lucked out with the mostly desexualized “innocent girl-next-door” persona becoming her brand throughout her early career, because it looks like things could have gone in a very different direction for her in another universe.

like you can literally see taylor being de-aged between her debut and fearless era as her public image cemented…the posing, the makeup, the hair, the clothing…it’s all very deliberate and sinister.

and now, all these years later, no one knows better than taylor herself that the most desirable thing a woman can be is not a woman, but a girl…a sexy baby, if you must.

her heart-shaped sunglasses, nothing new, the ten minute version of all too well, would’ve could’ve should’ve…she knows all about society’s sickness, its simultaneous fetishization and destruction of girlhood. she knows because she’s lived through it.

we don’t often categorize her or think of her as one, but she was a child star, and she barely escaped its curse. just barely. but unlike so many other child stars, unlike dolores haze, she survived with her voice and her pen, and she can see it all now, it was wrong.

#web weaving #parallels #connections #thread #taylor swift #midnights #midnights ts #dolores haze #swifties #girl blogger #girl blog #girlblogging #girlhood #lyrics #lyric analysis #nothing new #phoebe bridgers #dominique swaine #anti-hero #would’ve could’ve should’ve #all too well #all too well ten minute version #thoughts #feminism #feminist

[stoat-party]

The way all of Speak Now is haunted in hindsight:

#taylor swift #speak now #midnights #wouldve couldve shouldve #never grow up #the story of us #dear john #ts10 #speak now tv #would’ve could’ve should’ve #taylor swift lyrics #Speak now Taylor’s version

[backtodecembertv]

can’t stop thinking about the power difference in would’ve could’ve should’ve, and the shame that comes with knowing you were more impacted than the other person. that they got under your skin and fucked with your head in a way you could never match because you didn’t have the experience they have. in the first verse, she bitterly calls herself a splatter of paint – she affected him and his reputation, she shows up on his skin, but she can be removed from it easily. she feels permanently corrupted – he has her faith, her innocence, her girlhood. but he can just wash his hands and dismiss what he did to her. she can’t even get him to fight her because she already lost, so she fantasizes about it in her sleep. even when she’s hitting him where it hurts, she’s the one living for the thrill of it – any hurt he might feel is more important to her than it is to him. she’s waiting for a sign, but he never gives it. and she’s left trying to claw him out of her, trying to become the person she was before him, becoming more and more desperate, but she can’t. she’s forsaken her beliefs and herself for him, she can’t take that back. and he still gets to pretend his hands are clean.

#would’ve could’ve should’ve #taylor swift #midnights #to be clear i do NOT think taylor is actually permanently corrupted or anything like that #i’m just interpreting lyrics and projecting #anyway this is incoherent but whatever

[mmemirrorball]

my honest to god reaction to hearing “give me back my girlhood it was mine first” for the first time

#also if I was some paint did it splatter on a promising grown man!! what the fuck!! #honestly the whole song #would’ve could’ve should’ve #ts midnights #midnights 3am edition #taylor nation #swifties #taylor swift #taylors version #tswiftnation #ts eras tour #vmas #taylor swift vmas #aaron dessner

[sawthetruthinme]

would’ve, could’ve, should’ve— taylor swift

#taylor swift #taylurking #text #swifties #artjournal #lyric art #midnights #midnights ts #would’ve could’ve should’ve #1k

[somedesignstuff]

Meant to post this on Halloween night.. oops 😬

Also, ended up making that IG account after all, I won’t promise daily posts but something close to it. At least while the inspiration flows.

#mine #melissa-designs #poster #poster design #lyric edit #lyric poster #Taylor swift #Taylor swift lyrics #midnights #midnights 3am edition #would’ve could’ve should’ve #boo #ghost #late #Halloween #Halloween edit #design #graphic design #mydesign

[nostalgicbones]

the tomb won’t close, stained glass windows in my mind

#taylor swift #midnights #ts10 #would’ve could’ve should’ve #taylor swift lyrics #tscreators #tsedits #tsedit #tswiftedit #tswiftlyrics #tslyrics #dailytayloredit #lyric edit #aesthetic #typography #nostalgia #lyrics #edits #taylor #lexposts

[itsdelicate]

memories feel like weapons…

#creations #tswiftedit #taylorswiftedit #dailytayloredits #would’ve could’ve should’ve #wcs #tscreatorsnet #networkthirteen #userleah #userafolksongs #tuserella #userelena #usersar #tusermeggie #userleanne #usergorgeous #userbao #userthelasttime #art #watercolour #watercolor #itsdelicate #21062023

[stillgotscars]

would’ve, could’ve, should’ve // so long, london - taylor swift

#taylor swift #tswiftedit #my edit #typography #the tortured poets department #so long london #would’ve could’ve should’ve

[wildfloweronwheels]

There is a video I found from back when I was three, you’re setting up a paint set in the kitchen and talking to me. I’m five years old, it’s getting cold, I’ve got my big coat on.  She said I was seven and you were nine, I looked at you like the stars that shine in the sky like pretty lights. I hit my peak at seven. I’m thirteen now and don’t know how my friends could be so mean.  At fourteen there’s just so much you can’t do and you can’t wait to move out one day and call your own shots. Cause when you’re fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them. Good thing my daddy made me get a boating licence when I was fifteen.  Well, I was sixteen when suddenly I wasn’t that little girl you used to see. I’m crazier for you then I was at sixteen, lost in a film scene. Secret jokes all alone, sixteen and wild. Seventeen and crazy, running wild, wild. It’s like I’m seventeen, no one understands. I’m only seventeen, I don’t know anything but I know I miss you. How can a person know everything at eighteen but nothing at twenty two? Don’t you think nineteen’s too young to be played by your dark twisted games when I loved you so?  And I damn sure never would’ve danced with the devil at nineteen. It’s supposed to be fun, turning twenty one. I don’t know about you but I’m feeling twenty two. She’s still twenty three inside her fantasy. Oh, twenty five years old, oh how were you to know? Thirty two and still growing up now, who you are is not what you did. She said, I’ll be eighty seven, you’ll be eighty nine, I’ll still look at you like the stars that shine in the sky.

Every time Taylor Swift references an age in a song

#taylor swift #web weaving #the best day #mary’s song #never grow up #fifteen #no body no crime #all of the girls you loved before #miss americana and the heartbreak prince #I think he knows #starlight #Betty #dear john #would’ve could’ve should’ve #all too well 10 min version #22 #right where you left me #dancing with our hands tied #nothing new

[sadbeautifulttragic]

drawtober day 21: ghosts | @taylortober | shop prints

ghosts | low-key ts

#taylor swift #taylorswift #tswift #tswiftedit #my edits #my paintings #prompts #drawtober #would’ve could’ve should’ve #wcs #ghosts #q #lowkey ts

[ohmymymymyy]

Taylor Swift - Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve

“If clarity's in death, then why won't this die?”

#taylor swift #lyrics lockscreens #taylor lockscreens #wallpaper #art lockscreens #lockscreen #minimalistic #taylor lyrics #midnights #taylor album #would’ve could’ve should’ve #request

[taylorswifttournament]

Lyrics under the cut

New Romantics    

Please, take my hand and Please, take me dancin' and Please, leave me stranded It's so romantic

Would've Could've Should've    

If clarity's in death, then why won't this die? Years of tearing down our banners, you and I Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first

#taylor swift #polls #best bridge #new romantics #would’ve could’ve should’ve